Sunday, January 6, 2013
Reading Fluency
The break gave me some time to reflect on areas that I would like to focus on for the second half of the year. My second graders have made great strides in reading, but many still struggle with the fluency piece. I am going to do Readers Theater with them, as I found that to be really helpful last year. Does anyone have other suggestions for fun ways to help students boost their reading fluency?
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I use the Read Naturally Series to help a couple of my studetns who struggle with fluency. They pick a piece that interests them and that is at their independent level. First the students reads the passage by themselves and circles and words that they don't know. We talk about those words together. I have the student read the passage again using a phonice phone so they can hear how their fluency is. What they are done, they whisper read the passage while I monitor. The student then rereads the passage once more using the phonics phone again and we talk about what made it more fluent (having previously talked about what fluent readers sound like). The student then gets to pick a buddy to read the passage to and they fill out the comprehension question together. The student can put this in a binder in their browsing box. The passages are short, so the process only takes about 10 minutes. It keeps the students engaged and builds their fluency.
ReplyDeleteAlong with teaching fourth grade, I teach two reading intervention groups in the afternoon with students who are reading far below grade level. We are constantly working on ways to improve fluency. I like to use echo reading. I read a sentence or paragraph aloud (modeling fluent reading) and then the students chorally reread that segment. We talk about the differences we heard between my reading and their reading. Sometimes I tape record it and play it back for them to hear it because often times they don't hear their own mistakes.
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